Digital Forensics & Incident Response Services
AI-Enhanced Evidence Collection, Court-Ready Reporting, and 24 × 7 Breach Triage
Cyber-attacks do far more than siphon data; they paralyse production lines, launch lawsuits and erode brand trust in a single news cycle. IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report sets the worldwide average incident at US $4.88 million, the highest figure in nineteen years1. Lost business accounts for fifty-seven percent of that total. Diverge IT reports mid-market downtime at US $427 per minute2, while ITIC finds large-enterprise outages can reach US $16 700 per minute3.
Legal costs add weight. Ticketmaster’s May 2024 breach spurred a federal class action seeking at least five million dollars within twenty-four hours4. Coinbase disclosed an extortion breach in February 2025 that may cost up to US $400 million; its share price fell seven-point-two percent in one session5. Marks & Spencer dropped five percent after a payment-system breach in April 20256.
The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report shows credential theft, third-party compromise and ransomware cause forty-two percent of confirmed incidents7. Ponemon still pegs median detection and containment at 204 days, yet IBM notes organisations using security AI cut that window by one-hundred-eight days and saved US $2.22 million per breach1. Fast, expert forensics are no longer optional.
Rapid, Court-Ready Forensic Response
24 ⁄ 7 Breach Triage Hotline
Call 919-601-1601 any time. A lead examiner can start evidence preservation within sixty minutes or less.
Evidence Preservation & Chain of Custody
All imaging follows NIST SP 800-86 and SWGDE guidance. Cryptographic hashes verify integrity at every step.
Endpoint, Cloud & Mobile Forensics
Our lab relies exclusively on open-source, peer-reviewed tooling. We use The Sleuth Kit / Autopsy for disk imaging and artefact recovery, Velociraptor and Plaso for forensic timelines, and GRR Rapid Response for remote acquisition across large fleets. Mobile extractions leverage libimobiledevice and Andriller for iOS and Android, ensuring transparent, verifiable workflows. In the cloud we capture and parse AWS CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs and Google Cloud Audit records with OpenTelemetry exporters and publicly audited scripts, keeping every step reproducible and vendor-neutral.
Crypto-Asset Tracing
Illicit actors stole US $2.2 billion in cryptocurrency during 20248. Using GraphSense and other open-source blockchain-intelligence frameworks, we follow cross-chain swaps and prepare freeze requests for exchanges.
Expert-Witness Testimony
Certified analysts present findings in federal and state courts, translating packet logs and registry artefacts into evidence juries understand.
Five-Step Forensic Process
- Immediate Containment. Segmentation, privilege revocation, memory capture within the first hour.
- Forensic Imaging. Bit-level acquisition of disks, cloud buckets and mobile devices.
- AI-Assisted Analysis. Machine learning surfaces anomalous processes and rare event correlations.
- Attribution & Scope. TTP mapping to MITRE ATT&CK and threat-intelligence feeds.
- Report & Remediation. Court-ready documentation plus a mitigation roadmap aligned to NIST CSF.
Return on Investigation
Regulated-industry breaches average US $6.08 million9. Our incident-response retainers start at US $10 000. We cut potential exposure by as much as ninety-five percent compared with ad-hoc response costs reported by Field Effect10.
Case Snapshot: Fortinet VPN Exploitation
CISA and the FBI reported that multiple U.S. Defense Industrial Base contractors were compromised through unpatched Fortinet SSL-VPN appliances between 2023 and 2024; one victim experienced file encryption within an hour of initial access, although swift containment limited downtime to two days11. Fortinet edge-device flaws remain a prime target: the 2025 Verizon DBIR attributes thirty-four percent of ransomware intrusions to exploited VPNs, with FortiOS and Pulse Secure leading the list7. These public cases underscore the need to isolate malicious processes quickly, preserve forensic logs and patch VPN gateways immediately to avoid downstream CMMC breach-notification events.
Frequently Asked Questions
How fast can your team start?
On-call examiners begin evidence preservation within sixty minutes, twenty-four hours a day.
Are your reports admissible in court?
Yes. Reports follow SWGDE and ASTM E2763. Our experts have testified in federal and state cases.
Can you trace stolen crypto assets?
Our blockchain-intelligence workflow traces assets through mixers and bridges, supporting subpoenas for exchange freezes.
What does a typical engagement cost?
Most cases range from US $10 000 to $55 000 depending on device count and reporting scope. A triage call is free.
Book Your Free 30-Minute Triage Call
Suspect a breach? Call 919-601-1601 or book online now. Immediate containment limits legal, operational and reputational fallout.
References
- IBM Security. Cost of a Data Breach 2024. ↩
- Diverge IT. 2024 Downtime Cost Report. ↩
- ITIC. 2024 Server Reliability Survey. ↩
- U.S. District Court, C.D. Calif. Smith v. Ticketmaster LLC, filed 23 May 2024. ↩
- Coinbase Global Inc. Form 10-K, 27 Feb 2025. ↩
- The Guardian, 18 Apr 2025. ↩
- Verizon. Data Breach Investigations Report 2025. ↩
- Chainalysis. Crypto Crime Report 2025. ↩
- IBM Security. Same source as [1]. ↩
- Field Effect. Cyber Breach Cost 2024. ↩
- CISA & FBI. “Threat Actors Exploiting Fortinet SSL-VPN to Target Defense Industrial Base,” Alert AA23-103A, 13 Apr 2023. ↩
